This might seem simple but i just cant find the answer:- in opengl es (fixed function) lets say u texture map a bitmap to a regular polygon- so the bitmap is now stretched and thus relative position of the color points on the rectangle is different from original bitmap- is there is a way ... I mean a gl. function that- if given the x,y coord on the rectangle surface relative to say the top left rectangle coord as a parameter- will return the colour of that point?
Thanks in advance
PLEASE i hope someone can help on this... I'm kind-of stuck. many thanks

There is no function for that and hacking it would be more difficult than just manually grabbing the color.Why don’t you just read the bitmap data at that point? A box filter is also trivial to implement if you need to account for blending of colors.

There is a way of hacking it out of OpenGL ES but it is too terribly slow, extremely hackish, and even more complex to actually implement, so I would not be doing you a service by explaining it.

Thanks for ans Spiro. Reading the bitmap color even after texture mapping continues to reference to the unstretched bitmap. And so deosn't give correct values if u are trying to recover grid positions, remember only opengl knows the bitmap is stretched - the bitmap getPixel() still references original bm. Its ironic there is no simple solutions

The point is that OpenGL ES does a few matrix transforms and then possibly (optionally) some interpolations to get the final color.All of these things are things you can do on your own in software, again by reading directly from the texture. You make it seem as if OpenGL ES references something other than the original texture.

As frob and I mentioned, it can be hacked together via only OpenGL ES commands, but not only is that such a ridiculous hack, it also makes no benefit to your understanding of what is happening inside the OpenGL ES pipeline.I am not saying that understanding everything inside the OpenGL ES pipeline is super-important, but in this case it is not only better for your overall understanding, but also simpler, faster, and easier to implement.

Create a 1×1 render target, create an orthogonal projection matrix that will make the point whose color you want to grab land on that 1×1 dot, render, use glReadPixels() to get the color from the render target.